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8 BUTTONS
Preparation Time: Five minutes
Materials Needed:
40-50 buttons of different sizes, shapes and textures. Here in Washington state, at the Pendleton Woolen Mills you can buy a lunch bag full of a wonderful variety of buttons for $5.00. If you ask around you will often find most people have a button jar at home. My mother always had a button jar and whenever we lost a button she would have a “close enough” match. I might also suggest raiding the art department at your school. Wherever you find them it's important that you have an interesting and unusual assortment.
Procedure:
Make a circle with the buttons and then make a “smiley” face. Ask the class if they are mostly even, smiley or “unsmiley.” Students then select one button for:
(1) What would get them started in a positive direction,
(2) What would get them started in a negative direction,
Alternative: As each student shares, put their buttons on a string. When everybody has finished, put their buttons all together on a string. Hold it up and explain this is what our class looks like today.
Note: The button metaphor is often used in anger management as a way of identifying upsetting situations. You can easily reframe this so students begin to understand that buttons can be positive as well as negative.
10 OPPOSITES/TRIPLETS
Preparation Time: Five minutes
Materials Needed: This list of opposites
Procedure: Ask students in the round. Are you:
- coyote/road runner
- ping pong ball/paddle
- canoe/paddle/life jacket,
- shoes/socks/feet
- x/o
- wood/stove
- battery/light
- bottle/water
- hair/brush
- kindling/log/match
- light/switch
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